Chapter 179 – Fierce Battle Against Spirit Sea Realm Corpse Monsters

The arrival of the Corpse Mountain monster startled the Merfolk Tribe as well. Immediately, they emerged from their water concealment spell and shouted toward Mu Lin, “Your Highness, run! We’ll hold off this monster!”

“???”

“Your Highness? What the hell? They can’t be calling me, right?”

The Merfolk Tribe’s disciples hiding nearby naturally didn’t escape Mu Lin’s notice—his extraordinary Divine Soul had long detected them. However, these merfolk were too weak for him to care about.

Yet, even he hadn’t expected the merfolk to suddenly leap out to help him, treating him with utmost reverence.

“Could this be some kind of scheme?”

Unaware of the merfolk’s reverence for the Dragon Clan, Mu Lin couldn’t help but overthink the situation.

In the end, he chose to ignore it.

“Whatever. No matter what scheme you have, if you dare attack me, I’ll strike you down immediately.”

With that thought, Mu Lin turned his gaze toward the direction of the Corpse Mountain.

Unlike the merfolk’s panic, Mu Lin felt no fear at the arrival of the Corpse Mountain. Instead, he was somewhat eager.

“Perfect timing to test the limits of my strength.”

Holding this idea, Mu Lin didn’t retreat. Instead, he pressed his palms together and channeled his Blackwater Mana with all his might.

“Ha!”

With Mu Lin’s loud shout, surging mana immediately rippled outward, spreading through the heavens and earth.

“Whoosh…”

This unique fluctuation stirred up fierce winds. Guided by the flowing air, moisture gathered from all directions, coalescing into dark clouds above Mu Lin’s head.

“Hum!”

As Mu Lin exerted his full power, thick, ink-black clouds soon shrouded the sky above him, then enveloped the entire estate.

Next, the heavy clouds pressed down abruptly, looming over everyone like a mountain, weighing heavily on their hearts.

[Innate Spell – Summon Wind and Rain]

While Mu Lin was gathering the dark clouds, the Corpse Mountain had already drawn near and launched its attack midway.

“Woo woo woo…”

Amid a chorus of ghostly wails and howls, several grotesque and terrifying heads detached from the Corpse Mountain’s body and shot toward Mu Lin.

[Flying Head Demons]

To be honest, while Flying Head Demons were frightening, to Mu Lin, they were merely minor monsters he could crush with a wave of his hand.

What made Mu Lin narrow his eyes was that the Flying Head Demons released by the Corpse Mountain before him were anything but ordinary.

Some had single horns atop their heads, crimson faces, and sharp teeth like inverted hooks, looking utterly terrifying.

Others had heads ablaze with fire or were tinged with a sickly bluish-black hue.

These varied Flying Head Demons clearly looked formidable.

Seeing this, Mu Lin didn’t engage directly. Instead, he stomped the ground with one foot.

“Boom!” With the sound of the earth shattering, Mu Lin’s figure shot into the sky like a rocket.

After leaping into the air, Mu Lin didn’t descend. Instead, it seemed as if the wind was supporting him, allowing him to continue ascending toward the heavens.

[Innate Spell – Riding Clouds and Mist]

Soon, Mu Lin’s figure vanished into the dark clouds.

Once he entered the clouds, “Crackle, crackle…” the moisture he had gathered instantly transformed from thick dark clouds into a thundercloud, flashing with lightning and rumbling with thunder.

In the next moment, Mu Lin manipulated the thunder, causing bolts of lightning to surge violently from the clouds and strike down toward the Flying Head Demons.

“Boom!”

Blinding thunderbolts descended from the sky like divine swords, their pure and potent power instantly reducing a flying head demon to charred remains.

Seeing the effectiveness of his ability, Mu Lin immediately summoned thunderbolts, striking down one flying head demon after another.

He even hurled thunderbolts directly at the peak of the Corpse Mountain.

“Boom!”

Furious thunder crashed down relentlessly, one blinding flash of lightning following another.

Under the onslaught of the thunder, the several flying head demons attacking Mu Lin were instantly reduced to charcoal.

They had tried to evade, even attempted to counterattack.

Yet, it was all in vain.

The speed of thunder was unmatched in the world. Though flying head demons were known for their agility, they could not escape the thunder’s wrath.

As for blocking it—that was nothing but a joke.

This pure and potent force was the bane of all evil spirits.

No matter what supernatural abilities the flying head demons possessed, they were ruthlessly pierced, crushed, and obliterated by the overwhelming power of thunder.

After shattering the flying head demons, the dark clouds did not dissipate but swiftly advanced toward the Corpse Mountain.

Meanwhile, as Mu Lin summoned dark clouds and called forth wind, thunder, and lightning, the Merfolk did not merely stand by as he had expected. Instead, they courageously charged forward, engaging the massive Corpse Monster in battle.

“???”

“You’re actually serious?”

To be honest, this scene left Mu Lin somewhat bewildered. He couldn’t understand why the Merfolk were so respectful and kind to him.

But soon, he had no time to dwell on it.

The Merfolk were brave, daring to confront the Corpse Monster for his sake, which was commendable.

However, their strength fell short.

Or rather, the Corpse Monster, as massive as a mountain, was too powerful and too eerie.

“Splash…”

At the start of the battle, the Merfolk held a slight advantage.

Leveraging their numbers and seamless coordination, they summoned vast currents of water, surging toward the Corpse Monster like tidal waves.

As the water surged forward, some Merfolk at the rear shaped the currents, transforming parts of the flow into blades, tridents, galloping horses, sharks, and even Aquatic Tribe warriors.

Hundreds of warhorses thundered forward, dozens of sharks leaped, and countless blades rushed ahead. The combined spell unleashed by the Merfolk carried a formidable momentum.

Yet, the Corpse Monster was stronger.

“Boom…”

The water currents, as powerful as a hundred galloping horses, could shatter walls, but when they crashed against the Corpse Monster, they shattered into mere splashes as if striking a cliff.

Though the dozens of sharks and countless blades inflicted damage, tearing limbs, arms, heads, and blood from the Corpse Monster’s body, the Merfolk’s joy was short-lived.

What happened next horrified them.

As limbs and blood fell into the water, the Corpse Monster remained unfazed, but the seawater summoned by the Merfolk was utterly contaminated.

“Gurgle, gurgle…”

Once the clean seawater came into contact with the severed limbs and blood, it instantly turned into foul, yellowish Corpse Fluid and bloody water. Then, the surging seawater reversed its course, flowing back toward the Merfolk as the Corpse Monster advanced.

“Not good!”

“Don’t let the Corpse Fluid touch you…”

“Tidal Wave Spell…”

Faced with the overwhelming tide of Corpse Fluid rushing back, some Merfolk summoned waves to counter it, while others retreated.

Unfortunately, it was futile.

Ordinary waves could not halt the advance of the Corpse Fluid.

And the next moment, with a mere wave of the Corpse Monster’s massive hand…

With a “bang,” countless streams of Corpse Fluid shot toward the Merfolk like sharp arrows and bullets, blanketing the sky.

“Quick, dodge!”

Some of the Merfolk managed to evade the rain of droplets, but others were not so fortunate, struck by the Corpse Fluid.

The force of the Corpse Fluid was immense, instantly severely injuring several Merfolk. More horrifyingly, the fluid was toxic and highly contaminating.

Wherever the Corpse Fluid struck, the nearby flesh of the Merfolk immediately swelled and began to rot.

This sight disgusted and terrified the Merfolk.

As if misfortunes never come singly, while the Merfolk were struggling to deal with the Corpse Fluid, the Corpse Monster launched another attack.

A multitude of heads and hands flew toward the Merfolk.

Mu Lin’s Thunder was swift and domineering, capable of instantly shattering the flying heads released by the Corpse Monster before their abilities could manifest. The Merfolk, however, lacked such power.

Though they were not without strong fighters—who managed to shatter several heads and block some arms—the Corpse Monster was closer, releasing even more heads and arms. As a result, some still reached the Merfolk.

And then, tragedy struck.

“Ah!”

Some heads released piercing, ear-splitting shrieks like banshees, causing several Merfolk to bleed from their ears and suffer cracks in their Divine Souls.

Other arms, stained crimson with blood, left bloody handprints on the Merfolk from a distance.

Dark greenish-black feet stepped on the shadows of the Merfolk, instantly immobilizing them.

It must be said that a Spirit Sea Realm Corpse Monster lived up to its fearsome reputation.

Alone, it could annihilate multiple teams. At the very least, the Disciples of the Merfolk Clan were no match for it.

“It’s over…”

Everything before her filled Baili Xiuling, the Merfolk leader, with despair.

She herself was not infected by the Corpse Fluid and even had the ability to cast a peculiar healing Spell to cleanse the contamination from her clansmen and heal their wounds.

However, watching the massive Corpse Monster approach step by step, and seeing the numerous heads, limbs, and even eyeballs rapidly flying in from afar, Baili Xiuling knew her team would not hold out much longer.

“Sigh, although His Highness Mu Lin is talented, his temperament is too impulsive…”

Such a swift defeat and annihilation made Baili Xiuling sigh, and she couldn’t help but feel some resentment toward the one who had caused all this.

But just as she was sinking into despair and harboring complaints against Mu Lin…

“Boom!”

A deafening Thunderclap suddenly roared beside her ears.

The explosive thunder dispersed the banshee’s piercing shrieks and caused the swirling heads and Anomalous limbs to momentarily freeze.

Mu Lin had arrived!

The vast dark clouds were also moved above the Corpse Monster, looming like a mountain or a roof, enveloping the massive monster along with its hundreds of Anomalous heads and limbs beneath them.

In the next moment, blazing white Lightning, like divine swords from the heavens, descended one after another, striking those heads, arms, and dark greenish-black feet.

“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”

The overwhelming power of the Thunder effortlessly and forcefully crushed the Corpse Monster’s Anomalous limbs one by one.

Throughout this, the Anomalies that had been so troublesome for the Merfolk were given not even a sliver of a chance to resist.

The might of thunder is swift and powerful indeed.

And Mu Lin was not only attacking the flying heads released by the Corpse Monster; the earth-shaking, mountain-like Corpse Man, whose movements shook the very ground, was also struck by thunder more than a dozen times in succession.

“Boom!”

The explosive roar of thunder left one’s ears ringing, while the blinding lightning made it impossible to even look directly at it.

Feeling the divine power of the lightning, Baili Xiuling had no doubt that if this scorching lightning struck her, it would instantly reduce her to charred remains.

All of this left Baili Xiuling with not a trace of resentment toward Mu Lin, only reverence and admiration.

However, while she revered Mu Lin, such lightning strikes inflicted only minor wounds on the Corpse Monster.

There was no helping it—the Corpse Monster was too massive, composed of thousands upon thousands of piled-up corpses. A few bolts of thunder were simply incapable of harming it.

Nevertheless, Baili Xiuling also realized that while Mu Lin could not defeat the Corpse Monster, the Corpse Monster… could not defeat Mu Lin either.

(End of Chapter)